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A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is something more.
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Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.
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We erase ourselves we go away. But we don't really go away, and we don't really erase ourselves, since we were never there to begin with. We weren't there to begin with in that what we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.
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If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them.
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Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.
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The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, What is right?
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The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something lower than hell. We have endless sub-realms that make hell look like Club Med and we have endless nirvana.
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The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.
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Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.
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There is wisdom to loving.
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We feel crowded by other people we feel crowded by social rules we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.
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If someone confronts you about draining them it could be a double reverse. They are draining you and accuse you instead of draining them, just to throw you off.
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You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness.
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The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction, direction, and most of all you need a master's auric empowerment.
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Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.
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Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.
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Salvakalpa samadhi is like a sea of perfect light nirvikalpa samadhi is no light, no darkness, no way to describe it. Absorption is complete, that's nirvana.
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When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.
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When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.
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You're looking through the kaleidoscope of God and seeing God's face in so many ways, as friends, as strangers, passersby, country roads, jammed freeways, the cancer ward, the maternity ward - all the faces of God surround you at all times.
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